Event Details

Featured Guest:

Patrick Riley

The Future of Search

Hollywood has often portrayed the future where humans can exchange information with computers, delegate tasks to, and ask questions of (such as HAL, KITT, and COMPUTER from Star Trek). Since then, the Internet was become essential, a web of pages evolved into a web of people, and mobile smart phones have become ubiquitous throughout society.

Dr. Patrick Riley proposes that the future of search is in the intelligent personal assistant, a HAL in your pocket, and it's right around the corner.

About our speaker.

Patrick is the founder and CEO of Ark.com, a modern people search engine. Patrick built his first search engine while an undergraduate at Berkeley because he was tired of using Alta Vista to find academic articles. During his Ph.D., he created a search platform that captures and indexes everything said on broadcast television, in an effort to see how social media correlates to television. Patrick has published numerous computer science articles with the IEEE and ACM, as well as having ten years of industry experience.

As usual, we will start with gourmet dinner, wine and networking at 6:30 pm, this will follow with featured talk and Q&A session!

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When & Where

1077 Independence Avenue Mountain View,
94043

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (PST)

Organizer

TEDxBayArea

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBayArea. At our TEDxBayArea event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.